Connections Quote by Deborah Tannen

“Many women could learn from men to accept some conflict and difference without seeing it as a threat to intimacy, and many men could…

— Deborah Tannen

Relationships between men and women have become much more complicated.

— Christie Hefner

On the question of women's sexual freedom or female independence, there are still issues that haven't been worked out. There's an aura of traditional…

— Laura Kipnis

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

— George Weinberg

People have a lot less leniency for some reason for women straying from a relationship than they do for men.

— Jason Segel

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models…

— Jane Campion

Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than…

— Gish Jen

Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if…

— Deborah Tannen

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

— David Riesman

Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.

— Bell Hooks

Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.

— Nicolas Roeg

I think it's empowering for women to be in a relationship or single and have their own independence.

— Ashley Roberts